8 Nov
2018
8 Nov
'18
4:09 p.m.
ok but check on it a few times, i think you'll find it turning itself on.
On Thu, 8 Nov 2018, robb wrote:
i took it apart, put it back together & it seems
to be "fixed" - by that i
mean i was able to easily turn off the hot water
On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 5:08 AM Laura Turiano <scylla(a)riseup.net> wrote:
If you know how to do this repair, Jake, we would
appreciate you doing it.
Let us know and we will reimburse you for the parts or new faucet you buy.
Sent from my iPhone
On Nov 8, 2018, at 12:33 AM, Jake
<jake(a)spaz.org> wrote:
I have many times gone into the upstairs (near the shower) bathroom and
found
the hot water tap freely running. Every time I
do, i turn off the
supply valve
from underneath, because the problem is that the
faucet valve is not
sealing
and is likely continuing to run even when people
shut it off.
this is basic maintenance that's not happening. The cost of running hot
water
continuously is primarily energy, because the hot
water heater is burning
natural gas (or is it electricity?) to heat fresh drinking water that's
then
being sent down the drain.
The solution is to re-valve or replace the hot water faucet in the
upstairs
bathroom so it shuts off properly.
-jake
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2018 23:26:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jake <jake(a)spaz.org>
To: discuss(a)lists.omnicommons.org, building(a)lists.omnicommons.org
Subject: water leak in upstairs bathroom
i feel like i wrote this email a while ago but i'm not sure.
the bathroom in the corner of the upstairs bathroom (next to the
kitchen) hot
water faucet is leaking, flowing openly
continuously, unless it is
vigorously
forced off. This does not happen.
when i go into that bathroom (which is not often) i see that the hot
water is
just flowing. Because the seal in the valve is
worn out. So i turned
off the
service valve under the sink to turn off the
water to the faulty valve.
But
someone else turns it back on. and then people
leave the water on.
Omni has probably used thousands of gallons and hundreds of dollars in
water
alone, not to mention the wasted energy and money
of heating all that
hot water
that's then flowing into the sewers.
I am not going to replace the valve, but i'm here to point out the
problem
and
hopefully someone will fix it. If not, i'll
block off the pipe since
it's
something I know how to do, but it would be a
waste of effort since it
needs to
be repaired properly anyway.
will someone please confirm they'll take care of this?
-jake
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